Bernardo Frossard da Silva-Rêgo
Strategy and International Business
Bernardo Frossard da Silva-Rêgo
D.Sc. in Business Administration, COPPEAD/UFRJ
M.Sc. in Business Administration, COPPEAD/UFRJ
B.Sc. in Statistics, IBMR
B.Sc. in Business Administration, UFRJ
Areas of teaching
Strategy, International Business, Non-Market Strategy, and Academic Publishing
Research interests
International Strategy, Firm Internationalization, Non-Market Strategy, Corporate Political Activity,
Institutional Change, Geopolitics, Strategy in Risk Scenarios, Digital Transformation, Blockchain Strategy,
and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.
Biography
Bernardo Frossard da Silva-Rêgo is a Professor of Strategy and International Business at the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he belongs to the research line Strategy, Innovation and Transformation of Organizations and Ecosystems. He holds a D.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business Administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ and completed a doctoral exchange period at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. He also holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from UFRJ and a B.Sc. in Statistics from IBMR.
His research examines how organizations internationalize, engage with governments, and adapt to institutional, geopolitical, and technological change. His published articles address fiscal and financial incentives for foreign investment, the connection between international business and economic geography, digital risks in international business, the use of blockchain and decentralized autonomous organizations in firm strategy, and the influence of geopolitics on corporate decision making. He has also presented work on sanctions and international trade, geopolitical risk and ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions, and populism and location choice at conferences such as AIB, EIBA, GSEM, BALAS, and AIB-LAC.
He has published in journals including the Journal of International Business Policy, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, European Journal of International Management, International Marketing Review, and Research on International Business and Finance, as well as applied articles in AIB Insights. He received the Best Paper Award at the Academy of International Business Latin America and Caribbean Chapter (2026) and the Best Doctoral Thesis Proposal Award of the Society for Global Business & Economic Development (2019).
He is a reviewer for journals such as Long Range Planning, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, and AIB Insights. He has also served as track chair of institutions and geopolitics at conferences of the Academy of International Business Latin America and Caribbean chapter (AIB-LAC).